I thought I saw an earlier story that suggested they may try to bring the site back if hardware costs come down to earth, but I may have imagined it. Did anyone see that?

It’s just a matter of perspective. If you’re an evil psychopath, which is apparently the only demographic that has power and authority anymore, it bodes very well.

Love the article, nice work!

You’re right to feel insulted. LLMs are verbose and unreliable often enough that you have to check any work that comes out (or be negligent).

So what’s usually happening is someone is saving their time by spending yours. They saved the time normally needed to write a thoughtful reply by shifting the time and cognitive cost of reading and verifying to you, with AI as an excuse (often not without condescension, which is a type of “virtue signaling” driven by c-suite AI boosting). The slop output looks like “work product,” but is neither - it took no work and is a facade of a “product” because it’s unverified.

They are being selfish, and it is objectively an insulting act.

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It would be nice that he said this on Fox News, since his supporters wouldn’t ever see it otherwise.

But if they’ve gone along with him this far, I’m sure they are fine with this as well. “He shouldn’t say it, but I know what he meant, and I have good genes so I’m fine,” is probably as far as they’ll get.

Part of Skydance’s bid for Paramount was originally that they were going to keep it all rather than split it and sell it for parts (I think Sony had a competing bid that planned to spinoff the cable channels, e.g.). I don’t know if their Biden-era approval put that on paper, but if not, sure.

I think CNN will just get the CBS News treatment, however. No spinoff, just sabotage.

That’s indeed also right.

Paramount executives have already said they plan to find $6 billion in “synergies” within three years, though they’ve emphasized that the majority of their cost cutting will come from “non-labor sources,” including consolidating their streaming technology and cloud providers, combining IT systems across the company and “optimizing the combined real estate footprint and the broader corporate overhead,” among other ideas.

And as I wrote last week, most Hollywood observers and those familiar with Ellison’s plans predict that Paramount will be forced make steep layoffs to offset the cost of the deal and eliminate overlapping roles and functions between the two historic studios.

The article is mostly about pure debt load, but this is the answer: no matter what they say, they will heavily lean into layoffs because they never had any other ideas. They leveraged way too much debt to “win,” and now Paramount/HBO will be defined completely by that debt and the opportunities it doesn’t allow.

From knowing people within the merged company, this is in line with Skydance’s management style. Their imaginations are not large enough for their ambitions, and think if they cut jobs they make the company more “nimble” or at least make Wall Street think that (not clear they know the difference). When in fact they’ve long ago cut the fat and the muscle, have a workforce with absolutely toxic morale from years of layoffs, and are now carving off bone.

Well consider me better informed, thanks.

Have they…done that?

Ah, ok. There must be a quick, reliable alternative to archive.today given the controversy, but I haven’t found it yet.

Looks like this is paywalled, is there a readable link?

That isn’t nearly enough to protect Trump’s ego from reality.

Thanks, the link works now.

$839 billion (Bernie’s post misstates at 829). The most normal and human response to reading this list is to feel physically ill.

It’s been said many times, but to say it a different way: the government and Camacho in Idiocracy were much much better, since they immediately elevated the smartest person they could find to a cabinet-level post and accepted help rather than just lied about the problem.

Literally thousands? Have you tried bookmarking things after they’ve sat unused for awhile?

I typically just periodically save my browser windows with a tab manager extension. I just say because thousands sounds like way too much to keep track of…

Funny story, they actually did this to me before this all happened, and I was on a “I’m never going to update again” beta firmware that they gave me a link to, when the forced-update happened that broke my wifi. I didn’t disable any ADB-level processes, and I don’t think the system let me disable updates.

I mean, that’s great in theory. But the amount of manufacturers of non-smart TVs is tiny, and if you are interested in the best panels and display technology, refresh rates for gaming, etc (even removing affordability), it’s very very hard to just boycott if you want to have a modern TV at all.

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